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It is Thursday the 11th of August 2016 and you're listening to Skeptics with a K the podcast for science reason and critical thinking

Skeptics with a K is a production of the Merseys Skeptic Society, a non-profit

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I am your host, Mike Hall, with me today is Marsh.

Hello and Alice. So we had our

picnic we had a summer picnic that we have every year and that was good fun.

I didn't get sunburnt. Did you not get sunburnt? I lied in the sun and

didn't get sunburn. I did I got sunburn on my upper arm

Which I my arms are normally fairly fine when it comes to the sun it doesn't burn or anything like that yeah

But a little bit of sunburn on my upper arm. I think because it was I mean I'm mean it was quite a nice sunny day it was

eventually it wasn't to begin with it was the world's windiest day yeah

unfortunately we because so we bought a tent is it a tent Mike this is a long

conversation that we we could go yeah a document is in a tent is a long conversation that we could go

yeah his document is in a marquee a gazebo is it a Wendy house

you know how can you tell exactly where is the dividing line and we is the dividing line? And we know the dividing line is now.

It's in pieces across the tent and it transpires.

Yeah, so we built the tent and it turned out that the tent,

when I bought it, I had a couple of one-star

reviews saying, you know, I bought this for like a child's party thing, but the tiniest little a wisp of a breeze and it all fell to pieces I thought

That's not going to be a problem is it a nice sunny day and se- surely no we had the tiniest wisp of a breeze

Which meant the whole thing literally tore itself apart.

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